Head of Shiva. Mathura, AD400-425. Sandstone. This powerful head of Shiva, with ascetic's locks and the third eye of yogic insight, may have belonged to a full-length image or else to a mukhalinga, the primordial phallic form of Shiva in which the face of the god projects from its side.

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Head of Shiva. Mathura, AD400-425. Sandstone. This powerful head of Shiva, with ascetic's locks and the third eye of yogic insight, may have belonged to a full-length image or else to a mukhalinga, the primordial phallic form of Shiva in which the face of the god projects from its side.

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